Financial Services - Research and Development Senior Associate
- Employer
- PwC
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 8 Dec 2023
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- Sector
- Accounting - practice
- Salary band
- Competitive
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Where will they be working?
- Hybrid - mostly office
Job Details
PwC's National Innovation and Capital Incentives (ICI) team are passionate about helping clients obtain the R&D incentives available to support their investment in innovation. Based in London, our Financial Services ICI team is a diverse group of specialists, with a strong focus on growth.
We are looking to recruit an individual with a background in IT/Software at Senior Associate level with good experience of UK R&D tax incentives to take a supporting role in helping our clients understand the definition of R&D for tax credits, guide them through the process of making R&D eligibility assessments and manage the preparation of robust, high quality documentation to support their claims.
The role
We are looking to recruit an individual at Senior Associate level with experience of R&D and are keen to hear from people who are passionate about innovation, getting to know a broad range of businesses and having a direct role in growing our FS R&D practice.
We are particularly focussed on candidates able to support us in:
- Providing support on claim preparation and technical advice across the FS sector from a R&D perspective
- Supporting Managers and Senior Managers in delivering workshops with clients to brief them fully on the R&D incentives regime, taking responsibility for managing the input of the client technical teams to facilitate the quantification of the claims and managing the preparation of supporting documentation, developing strong relationships with both our clients and internal stakeholders
- Preparation/ review of documentation for submission to HMRC, including descriptions of R&D activities and detailed project summaries to support the R&D claims
- Assist in the preparation of R&D claims, including ensuring R&D eligibility assessments are appropriately reflected in the quantification of the claim
- Preparing responses to or liaising with HMRC with regard to queries they have on R&D claims on behalf of our clients
- Working collaboratively with a strong team focus
Essential skills and experience
- Experience of working in a tax environment, specialising in R&D
- Working knowledge of tax incentives and experience in preparing R&D claims and a keen interest in developing further
- Excellent communication skills - the candidate will be expected to be the point of contact on the projects they manage supporting a range of stakeholders including client contacts, PwC staff in the incentives team and also in the wider tax practice
- Coaching and delegation - the successful candidate will help to develop a growing team of associates supporting the R&D team, helping them grow their technical expertise alongside their soft skills
- Good written skills including report writing, technical memo drafting and concise advice notes for sharing with clients
- Analytical skills for numerical analysis of client data
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